[Koha] 1.2.0 Problems

[Pat Eyler]

On Thu, 20 Jun 2002, Shane Williams wrote:

> I've been watching Koha's progress for a couple of years now.  I tried
> 1.04, had some install troubles (with CDK in particular) and put it on
> the backburner.

Thanks for sticking with Koha.

>
> In any case, I decided 1.20 was a good point to reassess things.
> Things are looking much better (thank you so much for the web
> interface, now I don't have to monkey with CDK).  That said, I've had
> a number of problems with 1.20 as well. Looking at the recent list
> archive I can see that others are having trouble with 1.2.0 as well.
>

Yep, there are some issues with 1.2.0, a 1.2.1 release to fix the things
we've seen should be out shortly.

> I just wanted to lay out a few of the problems I've had (some may be
> repititions of other's posts).
>
> 1) Several links to koha.some.where/cgi-bin/koha/etc. that failed
> based on the example <VirtualHost> entries.  My solution was to change
> my ScriptAlias entry in httpd.conf to:
>
>    ScriptAlias  /cgi-bin/koha/ /home/httpd/koha/cgi-bin/
> instead of:
>    ScriptAlias  /cgi-bin/ /home/httpd/koha/cgi-bin/
>
>
> 2) On the members/index.html there's a link to members/results-add.html,
> but no such file exists.
>
>
> 3) The other problem, which Pete mentioned in his "koha install problems
> on RH 7.2 MORE DATA" is that all but one of the scripts in
> koha/cgi-bin/admin/ have compilation problems.  For instance, running
> perl -cw branches.pl leads to:
>
> Scalar value @biblioitems[$x] better written as $biblioitems[$x] at
> /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/i386-linux/C4/Reserves2.pm line 189,
> <KC> line 6.
> "my" variable $sth masks earlier declaration in same scope at
> branches.pl line 192, <KC> line 6.
> Too many arguments for C4::Output::mklink at branches.pl line 262,
> near "'')"
> branches.pl had compilation errors.
>
>
> 4) A few other notes.  In the INSTALL file, there are a few confusing
> spots.  One is that database name in all the mysql commands is Koha,
> but in the sample koha.conf file it's koha.  Also, at least with perl
> 5.005 the -I option must come before the script name, so the command:
>
> perl scripts/updater/updatedatabase -I /pathtoC4
> should probably read (and why not point to the pathtoC4 dir):
>
> perl -I modules/ scripts/updater/updatedatabase
>
>
> All in all though, things are looking good.  Once the admin scripts
> get fixed up, I'll start showing it off to the folks here at the
> Library and Information Science School.  Thanks for all the hard work.
>

Great!  Please let us know how things go.  And what we can do to help make
the presentation go more smoothly.

-pate

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